Agency Question

[rosetint]

Hi seasoned veterans,

I have been reading many threads concerning various agencies and unfortunantily I have the opportunity to bring up another one. 
Has anyone had any experience with:
http://www.eastmeetwest.com/
Seems as though its owned by an English fellow and have various affiliations with agencies around the FSU etc...

The reason I ask is that I have booked a trip to Ukraine April 1st, and have started contacting women using this, and other sites recommended here.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[SANDRO43]

Seems as though its owned by an English fellow and have various affiliations with agencies around the FSU etc...

Yes, a UK subsidiary of the Angelika network (for others, see this page on my website: http://www.floriani.it/sitirussi/angelika-eng.htm). This, in itself, is not totally comforting, as well their:

1. Disclaimer
East meet West, it's owners, and employees, are not liable to the users of this service or to its registered participants for the content, quality, performance or any other aspect of any information provided by participants and transmitted by this service or for any errors in the transmission of said information. Nor is Russian women dating ??? responsible to any person for any damages arising in any manner out of the use of this service. The users and participants acknowledge that they assume all risk and/or responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the uses to which this service is put.

2. Indemnification
The user and/or participant shall indemnify and hold harmless East meet West, its officers and employees, from and against any claims, liabilities, losses, costs, damages or expenses (including attorney's fees) arising from the user's use of or participation in this service or the information contained thereon.

I wonder why they had to repeat this twice, once in their ToS and again on a separate page ?

Be careful and, BTW, welcome to RWD.

[rosetint]

Hey thanks for the welcome and the good info. (I'm really green and want to have the best info possible)

You make a good point, but just want to clarify.  Is the Angelika network bad, or are you concerned with the disclaimers?
Most websites I've seen have similar ones... Even this wonderful site has a pretty lengthy disclaimer/limits of liability section etc...

Thanks again!

[SANDRO43]

You make a good point, but just want to clarify.  Is the Angelika network bad, or are you concerned with the disclaimers?

Both .

Most websites I've seen have similar ones... Even this wonderful site has a pretty lengthy disclaimer/limits of liability section etc...

Yes, but you're not shelling out any money to get information here, are you ? Therefore, if you received wrong information, you'd only have wasted some of your time.

The problem with these VERY large organisations is that they have to rely on local, FSU "feeder" agencies to supply women's profiles, and the latter may or may not be very discriminative when screening (if they do it at all, most of the times women just fill a questionnaire and send their photos via Internet) and accepting them. Angelika in turn feeds quotas of these profiles to its international "subsidiaries", who have to trust what they receive (but maybe they do have doubts themselves, hence their repeated disclaimers ).

In short, a woman you see there and like, may or may not be what she says and/or how she looks there. Basically, a credibility problem, hence my suggestion to exercise caution with "East Meets West". Or, in other words, don't wear spectacles conforming to your nickname when dealing with them .

[rosetint]

got it- good to know moving forward.  Thank you sir.

[SANDRO43]

Thank you sir.

My pleasure, laddie .

.... I have booked a trip to Ukraine April 1st

That date might be an infelicitous choice, though .

[rosetint]

haha I just made that connection!  Actually I lied, I leave Chicago Wed. the 2nd, but will make sure to avoid any black cats on the way. 

[Vaughn]

"I want to meet a man who is intelligent, sincere, adventurous and ready for frantic gestures"



The quote is from this 19 year old babe, whose acceptable range in a man includes me, a 57 year old.
Rosetint, she's obviously not typical of the ladies on this site, yet I also urge caution on your first FSU
visit. Keep your expectations reasonable, but for goodness' sakes, have a wonderful time!

I vote that we add "Frantic Gestures" to the Russglish section when we can determine its meaning.

Vaughn

[SANDRO43]

I vote that we add "Frantic Gestures" to the Russglish section when we can determine its meaning.

Seconded, Vaughn. Maybe financial suicide would be an appropriate equivalent in English ?

[Vaughn]

Maybe financial suicide would be an appropriate equivalent in English ?

I am reminded of your brilliant Kompletely Broke comment some months back, LOL!
And now that we've made a few payments on the house, let me reveal that you were
not far off the mark!

I really hope this Rosetint fellow gets a fair shake.....

[Turboguy]

The two good things is that you have a lot of time before your trip in April and you have found RWD. 

Do a lot of reading here and your trip will be much more likely to have the results you hope for.

Welcome to RWD